Prostate biopsy waiting time at Cessnock Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Cessnock area of New South Wales was 65 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 65 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 90 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 75 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 65 days in 2024–25 — up 132% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 22 km away, at 49 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Prostate biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Cessnock Hospital	65 days	not published	29 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	38 days	0.1%	3466 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	33 days	0.4%	11402 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 22 km away49 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 36 km away65 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 66 km away23 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 100 km away62 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 103 km away47 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 111 km away31 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 113 km away45 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 114 km away58 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Prostate biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Cessnock Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	28	32	27
2017–18	44	33	29
2018–19	34	30	29
2019–20	46	28	28
2020–21	not published	29	29
2021–22	not published	28	28
2022–23	not reported for this period	34	30
2023–24	not published	34	29
2024–25	65	38	33

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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